Just got back from a long day at the 18th annual Florida eXtravanganza in Orlando, Florda. FX is always a busy con since they manage to take 10 conventions — sci-fi, comics, cards, horror, dolls and bears, anime, sports, rock ‘n’ roll, etc — and cram ’em all into one big room. But the reason I went is because FX packs in the stars, and this year they had three Big Damn Heroes (or, possibly, two BDHs and a Big Damn Hottie): Adam Baldwin, Ron Glass, and Christina Hendricks. There were also a few other notables that other people seemed to find popular, like Hayden Panettiere and Zachary Quinto (Heroes), Andy Hallett and Bianca Lawson (Angel and Buffy, respectively), Colin Ferguson and Jordan Hinson (Eureka), Ray Park (Star Wars, X-Men), Lance Henriksen and Michael Biehn (Aliens), Kenny Baker (Star Wars), Feliz Silla (Star Wars, The Addams Family), the entire cast of Fanboys including Kristen Bell, Chris Marquette, Jay Baruchel, Dan Fogler, Sam Huntington, William Katt, Peter Graves, and more. But I went for the crew, and I went to show them their dopplegangers. Teres’ dolls went over well, I’d say. Adam played with his a bit, after being reassured that it was formerly a soldier […]
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If the stuff in QMx’s regular catalog wasn’t enough, now they’ve launched their eBay store where they’ll be featuring “rare and unusual prototypes, one-offs, uncut money sheet artist proofs” and more, with new stuff every week. C’mon, guys, ya gotta leave me some money… And while we’re talking about ’em, Andy Gore announced in their first newsletter that the Mal’s pistol replica is going to be even cooler than we thought. Real metal screws, a machined steel barrel insert, a better grade of walnut handle, and a nicer display box. Pre-order it quick, it’s never a good idea to be the only one in the room without a gun…
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UPDATED Just heard some big news from Andy Gore at QMx about upcoming developments from our favorite replica company. First, the fan club edition of the Alliance Money Pack will be closing officially as of Jan. 31. Remember, this version (with the Miranda map and the possibility of getting the “Golden Ticket”) was a limited offer an that limit is approaching, so if you’ve been holding out now’s your chance to get rid of some of that Christmas money. The regular packs will go back on sale, minus the extras, sometime around March. As he said, The Browncoat community has been incredibly supportive of QMx and our first product, so we want to make sure all the Browncoats who came out in such huge numbers to support us have something truly remarkable and unique. (You can also enter our trivia contest for this week to win a money pack) Second, and this is huge: QMx has commissioned Geoffrey Mandel (Serenity graphics designer) and Tim Earls (Serenity and Firefly designer) to create, for the first time ever, the definitive set of blueprints of our favorite ship, Serenity. These blueprints will be distilled from literally hundreds of set photos, detailed architectural drawings, cgi […]
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Some interesting tidbits just popped up at the QMx blog about their proposed 20″ model: She’ll be approximately 20? long, will feature the blue/grey deco and detailing as seen in Serenity, and will basically rule the display shelf in your home.
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QMX, after showing off their pretties at the Browncoat Backup Bash, have been shipping money packs all week so if you’ve ordered yours you should be seeing it soon. If not, get over there! Remember, money packs ordered through their website include an exclusive map of the ‘Verse from Serenity graphic designer Geoff Mandel, and you also get a chance to get one of 5 Golden Tickets to win production artwork signed by designers Mandel or Tim Earls. You can also get one, maybe by entering the contest at The Signal; the Firefly/Serenity podcast is giving away 15 of the sets. And one grand prize winner will get an uncut sheet of the money and an unfolded map, along with one of the Golden Ticket packs. Deadline is Jan., 11, details are in this podcast. QMx has also launched their new blog, Propaganda, which contains, so far, video of their Geoff Mandel interview and video from the Backup Bash. Shiny!
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See, last year a group called Booster Events held this massive Firefly/Serenity convention in California last year called “Flanvention.” A lot of the cast shows up, there were panels and dinners and photo shoots and whatnot, membership was limited, and it was a lot of fun, a way for fans of the cancelled-too-soon show and because-we-demanded-it movie to talk to their favorite stars. This year’s hotly anticipated event sold out months ago and everybody was psyched. Or would have been. The organizers cancelled it. The day before it was scheduled to happen. There were some worries this would happen, after Nathan mentioned he hadn’t been approached yet and vague warnings of financial troubles popped up on the Booster Event forums. To the 500 people who paid hundreds of dollars for tickets (and, in some cases, thousands of dollars for lifetime memberships, since BE does other cult-favorite cons throughout the year) this was a huge slap in the face. Outraged fans made their voices heard before the organizers came back a few days later to say they got a loan and all was, again, well. Then they cancelled it after people around the world were already on their planes and in their […]
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Just received some new pics of the replica Serenity stuff coming out from QMx. Heed the words of Andy Gore: “Hey Chris! Just wanted to let you know it’s a matter of days now before the first Fan Club Exclusive Serenity Money Packs ship (They should start shipping to customers about a week after Thanksgiving.) To celebrate, QMx’s design director Jason Eaton let slip some shots of the money sheets (right before they’re cut) and also did a close-up comparison of our printing sources files (which came straight from technical adviser Geoff Mandel) versus some fanmade money. And what’s that I see? Could it be the CoA for the Mal Pistol? 😉 ” Above right: a comparison of the actual bill versus a fan-made one. Crisper! More photos after the jump.
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Rumors have been spreading, hints have been leaked, and now finally the word is out: there are new, licensed Serenity props coming from a brand new replica company, QMx. The company was started by Stephen Dymszo, a man who has been in the prop business for 14 years. 4 1/2 of them were spent at the company he founded, Master Replicas, and if you’ve ever gone shopping for the best lightsaber replicas or just walked through a good convention dealer room, you’ve seeing their acclaimed work. In fact, if you saw Yoda’s lightsaber in the prequel movies you saw Steve’s work – a prop he reworked as a joke for a friend was seen by a designer working for LucasArts, and ultimately made it into the movies. But last year he left the company he founded to take a new direction.
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